Images rotate - Rotate manually images if camera rotation is not rendered correctly.Watermark protection - Protect images from unauthorised usage on other websites or media.Social share buttons - Allow your visitors to share on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest.Galleries list view - Top level gallery view with all galleries included as a subfolder. No images in this view.

Single gallery view - A gallery with any number of sub-galleries and images included in a current.Item view - Single photo layout with its display settings and options.Gallery display settings - Configure galleries grid, number per page and ordering. Show/hide empty galleries.Item display settings - Configure images display grid, number per page and ordering.

Functionality

Very good.....my only niggle is that it does NOT have a search facility, which surely is a basic, essential feature for large galleries.

Ease of use

Very easy to use....you shouldn't have any problems setting this up...all self-explanatory.

Support

No experience

Documentation

Very good

I used this to:
A database of astronomical images

Owner's reply:
Thanks for your review, Andy. We are glad to hear that you enjoy using our product.

Search feature is available in Grand version which has all modules and plugins available for FW Gallery. You can use Grand version by installing on top of FW Gallery Light. No conversion of migrations are needed. So you are just one step from search functionality you are looking for.

Also note that we have Client Section on our website where you can suggest an idea, or report a bug, or ask about custom modification for your needs.

Functionality

Ease of use

Functionality

Overall pretty good. But I needed to provide admin access to a new usergroup and wasn't able to do this. No permissions in Global Config!

Ease of use

I consider it very easy to use. The only thing you may want to read up on is how to batch upload zipped image files.

Support

It's a free extension & support is non-existent. That's fine, but I don't see a community forum where users can share notes and help others

Documentation

Information can be found, though largely not necessary since the extension is easy to use. But there is next to nothing on permissions.

I used this to:
Photo gallery on a non-profit's website. It's used mainly for the organisation's events and does a good job, mostly. The downside is that permissions could not be assigned to a new usergroup. I don't see permission settings anywhere. This is a major minus point for my purpose.

Functionality

never worked correctly after each installation on every joomla 3.0 site. I had to contact the support after each installation.

Ease of use

very easy to use once the bugs have been removed but images disappear after each joomla update.

Support

slow

I used this to:
to display photos only during the times when the component works correctly:)

Owner's reply:
Thank you for your opinion.
This extension exists for a long time, and for sure, it is stable. Necessary docs can be found on our website. Support is available and clients get responds according to support rules, presented on the corporate website.
Extension works with Joomla 3.x for a long time and is updated permanently, so there seems to be misunderstanding for this point. Pics don't disappear after Joomla update in case you use the original version of the extension and don't modify it by yourself.
If any questions appear, our support system is available and ready to help.

I was looking for a responsive gallery extension which isn't too complex to adjust to my template and easy to use. FW Gallery did right out of the box a good job. When I had a configuration problem which resulted in album images shown twice in lightbox view, the support helped quickly, although I only use the free version.

Grand Gallery

By Fastw3b

Galleries

FW Gallery Grand is a full featured gallery with photo and video support, 4 different design themes, front-end manager and powerful tags system in addition to slideshow, slider, map and latest module and a powerful Content Plugin that allows add files and full galleries in Joomla articles and modules.
FW Gallery Grand features:
5 Gallery Designs
Default, Masonry, Pinterest, Polaroids and Classic...